Disease Indicators - AIDS, per head of the population, malaria, etc.
Demographic Indicators - population growth, urban/rural population figures and mortality rates, life expectancy, etc.
Education - Primary school enrolment, secondary school enrolment, proportion of the population attending university, etc.
Human Development Index
Task: Human Development Index
Answer the following questions through research:
1. What is the Human Development Index?
2. How is it measured?
3. Name the top 3 countries based on this index.
4. Which countries top the individual measurements that make up the HDI? Take each of the indices that make up the HDI ( there are 3) which country is at the top of each?
We need to develop a set of indicators to use for our research purposes. Note some of the examples below. Click on each to exam the source.
source: http://school.edturtle.co.uk/inequality.htm
What exactly would you look at to determine something like Political Stability? How would you rate it? 1-10? Some other scale?
Look over this list of indicators
Task: Human Development Index
Answer the following questions through research:
1. What is the Human Development Index?
2. How is it measured?
3. Name the top 3 countries based on this index.
4. Which countries top the individual measurements that make up the HDI?
Take each of the indices that make up the HDI ( there are 3) which country is at the top of each?
Resource:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xIbkPPkuKno